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109 Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 731. Irish Georgian Society: Irish Architectural and Decorative Studies, Vol. I - Vol. XX, together 20 vols. roy 8vo Dublin 1998- 2017. First Edns., profusely illustrated, orig. illus. wrappers. V. good. (20) €120 - €180 732. Americana: Farthest East, and South and West, Notes of a Journey Home through Japan, Australasia and America By an Anglo-Indian Globe Trotter. 8vo Lond. (W.H. Allen & Co.) 1892. First Edn., Hf. title, frontis & 11 plts. unopened copy, one page with straight tear, orig. coloured pict. cloth, gilt lettered. (1) €100 - €150 733. Hatton (Frank) North Borneo Explorations and Adventures on the Equator, 8vo Lond. 1886. Second Edn., port. frontis 18 plts. text illus. & fold. cold. map, Bank of Ireland Library stamp on title, orig. brown cloth, recased. V. good copy. (1) €120 - €180 734. Engd. Plates: The Sporting Magazine or Monthly Calendar of the Transaction of The Turf, The Chase ..., Vol. 37, 8vo Lond. 1811. Engd. frontis, 2 engd. titles, & 22 engd. plts. cont. hf. calf. As a coll. of plts., w.a.f. (1) €75 - €125 735. Americana: Dunraven (Earl of,) The Great Divide: Travels in the Upper Yellowstone in the Summer of 1874, 8vo Lond. 1876. First Edn., frontis, 2 fold. cold. maps, & 13 (ex 14) plts., orig. hf. mor. spine worn. (1) * The author lived at Adare Manor, Co. Limerick. €100 - €150 736. Priestley (Joseph) A Course of Lectures on Oratory and Criticism, 8vo Dublin (Wm. Hallhead) 1781. First Dublin Edn.? XII, [4], 374pp. Remains of L.S. on title page, cont. full calf, worn, mor. label. (1) €150 - €200 737. Rare Londonderry Printing M’Carter (John) A.M. Efforts in the Study or Contributions in Poetry and Prose for the Christian Public, 8vo, Londonderry (James Hempton) 1857, First Edn., orig. photo portrait frontis, hd. cold. plts., some scribbling, hf. calf, mor. label. (1) €170 - €220 738. Heaney (Seamus) The Government of the Tongue [Lectures and Critical Writings] L. 1988, First Edn., cl. in d.w.; with the First US Edn. N.Y. 1989, and an uncorrected proof of same. (3) €150 - €200 739. Heaney (Seamus) Selected Poems 1966- 1987, N.Y. 1990, First U.S. Edn., No. 182 of 200 copies specially bound and Signed, slipcase, fine; with the same, uncorrected Proof, wrappers, v.g.; also the same, regular edition, cloth in d.w., N.Y. 1990; and the First Paperback U.S. Edn., 1991, Noonday, wrappers. (4) €300 - €500 740. Signed First Edition Heaney (Seamus) & O’Driscoll (Dennis) Stepping Stones [interviews] L. 2008, Faber, First Edn., cl. in d.w., fine, Signed on t.p. by Heaney and O’Driscoll. (1) €300 - €500 741. Celtic Binding: The Irish Crisis of 1879-80 - Proceedings of the Dublin Mansion House Relief Committee, 1880, Thick imp. 8vo Dublin (Brown & Nolan) 1881. First Edn., a.e.g. recased in orig. full mor. with large Celtic designed borders, and central Celtic medallion, raised bands, no indication of binder. V. good. (1) €300 - €400 732 739 & detail 740